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RankBrain is For Understanding Queries, Not for Crawling or Replacing Ranking

March 18, 2016 at 5:25 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

RankBrain is For Understanding Queries, Not for Crawling or Replacing Ranking

Ever since RankBrain first launched, there has been a lot of confusion over how exactly it impacts SEOs and site owners.  While we know it has a greater impact on search queries that Google has never seen before, Gary Illyes from Google has cleared up some of the more popular misconceptions about RankBrain and how […]

Google Testing Extra White Space in Search Results

March 18, 2016 at 5:14 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Testing Extra White Space in Search Results

Google is running a limited test with extra white space in the search results, adding significantly more space between each individual search result than we normally see. Here is how it looks in the search results, one with the extra white space and the other showing how Google normally displays the results. Justin Aldridge from […]

Google Adds “About This Result” to Featured Snippets

March 18, 2016 at 4:20 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Adds “About This Result” to Featured Snippets

Google has made a slight update to the appearance of featured snippets in the search results.  They have added a new “About this result” directly below the featured snippet, next to the link that says “Feedback.” Here is how it appears in the search results. This seems to be a widespread change, as it isn’t […]

Which Manual Action Notice Does Google Send the Most?

March 18, 2016 at 4:10 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Which Manual Action Notice Does Google Send the Most?

Google has been sending out a wide variety of manual actions to webmasters for several years, ranging from invalid links to thin content warnings. But when it comes down to which manual action notice Google sends out to webmasters the most, the answer is somewhat surprising.  Because the largest number of manual actions Google sends […]

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